Comments on: Busted: Niles Goldstein http://bustedhalo.com/features/busted-niles-goldstein an online magazine for spiritual seekers Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:56:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rabbi Niles Goldstein http://bustedhalo.com/features/busted-niles-goldstein/comment-page-1#comment-5858 Rabbi Niles Goldstein Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:22:40 +0000 http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=10009#comment-5858 You'd have to ask the Romans.... More seriously, Jesus teaches a lot of different things in the Gospels, many of them contradictory. In some versions, he preaches that he is literally God incarnate--and in that time and place that would have been considered idolatry, a capital offense. I like your take on what Jesus taught, but my reading of the New Testament suggests that, at a minimum, he saw himself as an intermediary, or intercessor, BETWEEN us and God (hence the model for and precursor to the notion of a priest in Catholicism). Even if your take is right and that IS what he taught, it would have bordered on pantheism, which certainly would have gotten him into trouble anyway. You’d have to ask the Romans….

More seriously, Jesus teaches a lot of different things in the Gospels, many of them contradictory. In some versions, he preaches that he is literally God incarnate–and in that time and place that would have been considered idolatry, a capital offense. I like your take on what Jesus taught, but my reading of the New Testament suggests that, at a minimum, he saw himself as an intermediary, or intercessor, BETWEEN us and God (hence the model for and precursor to the notion of a priest in Catholicism). Even if your take is right and that IS what he taught, it would have bordered on pantheism, which certainly would have gotten him into trouble anyway.

]]> By: Steve Pickens http://bustedhalo.com/features/busted-niles-goldstein/comment-page-1#comment-5842 Steve Pickens Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:02:54 +0000 http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=10009#comment-5842 Since Yeshua ben Yosef was born a Jew and died a Jew, what did he teach that got him killed. Not to poison the well, but I think he taught that there was no division between G-d and humans. What do you think? Since Yeshua ben Yosef was born a Jew and died a Jew, what did he teach that got him killed. Not to poison the well, but I think he taught that there was no division between G-d and humans. What do you think?

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